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Azealia Banks Was Right About Nicki Minaj's Wax Figure

Azealia Banks called it.

Last week, the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas unveiled its latest star attraction: a provocatively posed likeness of Nicki Minaj.

While Nicki wasn’t in Vegas for the big reveal on Aug. 4, she spent the afternoon Instagramming her appreciation.

“They had the dancers ready and everything,” she gushed in one caption. “so iconic. Thank u.”

Rapper Azealia Banks, however, thought positioning Minaj on all fours was disrespectful and took to Twitter to share her disgust.

Wow, they finally give nicki minaj a wax figure and it's a statue of her bent over on all fours...... White people yo....

She wanted to know why Minaj — a successful rapper and mogul — wasn’t depicted standing up with a mic in her hand.

As much as that woman has accomplished, they had to put her on all fours... Why not standing up with a mic in her hand ???

(Which, interestingly enough, is exactly how Madame Tussauds depicts most of Minaj’s peers.)

The Harlem rapper went on to call the situation shady, expressing concern that the figure encourages museumgoers to engage in objectifying behaviors.

I would complain and ask for a do-over. That's such underhanded shade

All ppl are gonna do is go up to that statue and take pictures shoving their crotch in her face and putting their crotch on her butt

Now, less than a week after Banks’s Twitter rant, she seems to have been proven at least partially right. Tourists have been taking photos of themselves miming sex acts with the statue and posting them on social media.

First, there were the frisky ladies Minaj laughed off on Instagram.

Then there was this fellow:

And then there was this:

Madame Tussaud's didn't expect this though? 😒

Which, as Banks reminded everyone this morning, is exactly the type of thing she was worried about.

I have some sort of feral, triple-intuitiveness that makes me know things as soon as I seen them.

Translation: